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Background: Closer inspection of the spread of HIV/AIDS and its implications on individuals; communities and societies reveals several significant linkages with water and sanitation. In the context of poverty; malnutrition; high prevalence of co-infections with other opportunistic diseases; and overburdened health systems; individuals may be more susceptible to acquiring HIV and less able to cope with HIV-related illnesses; both physically and economically.Objectives: To determine the effect of sanitation and water quality on people living with HIV/AIDS in Kibera slum.Design: A cross sectional study.Settings: The study was carried out in Kibera informal settlement in Nairobi; Kenya.Subject: Randomly recruited 369 adults living with HIV/AIDS in Kibera slum.Results: Logistic regression analysis employed to predict the probability that a respondent living with HIV/AIDS in Kibera slum would be infected with diseases related to taking contaminated water and living in poor environmental sanitary conditions using the predictor variables and showed a significant partial effect; x2 (5; N = 369) = 73.912; p 0.001.Conclusions: Safe drinking water was inaccessible to a majority of participants indicating a high risk of opportunistic diseases and high economic burden